Hit up forum member Tim K. He builds custom cabinets IIRC.
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Hit up forum member Tim K. He builds custom cabinets IIRC.
Keep an eye on Craigslist and other sites. You can run across near new cabinets there for very good prices. There are also some good 2nd hand building material recycle stores in Denver, along with Habitat for Humanity. I have purchased a lot of new RTA cabinets from the Habitat store in Springs.
If your boxes are good, you could consider replacing the doors and painting.
I built a set of cabinets for my previous house. I hand laid over 2000 willows in the faces, it took months. They served me well for years. I bought a new house and turned that one into a rental. The tenant upon leaving kicked in the fronts that I have labored so long over.�� I was so happy to find out a year later that they were arrested on other charges.
If end up buying from factory or distributor, buy all cabs at one time. Factory may make changes to finish or other changes to cab line at any time. The size of your kitchen suggest approx 5-7 base cabs, order them at same time as walls.
In a remodel in which new cabs and flooring will be installed I always recommend flooring be run under the front amd open ends of base cabs, not just up to the toekick or side panels. Will make no difference with water leak or spill, water will get under the cabs. Flooring under bases will always finish out better.
Tim K is an awesome resource and Colorado has a few good distributors for big manufacturers.
Guaranteed to cost you more money and a hassle next time want to remodel kitchen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
If doing full remodel run the floor under.
Get with Tim K! Amazing work!
All of the basics, plywood vs particle board, good finger joints on the drawer boxes, the really nice ones I see on job sites have adjustable feet for leveling and so on. People seem to think the Ikea cabinets are good but I’ve never seen them in person. There are some good online manufacturers that you can buy direct from, pick your boxes and then your frame and door styles, they send them to you partially knocked down and you assemble or they can ship complete and so on.
I used to be a custom cabinet maker and I have made every cabinet in my house. I've also installed IKEA cabinets and cabinets from Cabinets To Go. Honestly, for a spec house or a flip, I would definitely look at options from those two stores. If they are assembled and installed by a good carpenter, most people would think they are awesome.
If it was for my own house that I intended to spend decades in, I would build the boxes and face frames myself, but order the doors unfinished from a door company. The time-saving there makes it totally worth it.
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I know one person who went with "assemble yourself" cabinets and he was happy with them. He said the cost savings were worth it. I don't recall the brand but it wasn't IKEA.
My brother has done flat pack cabinets with satisfactory results.
Tim k has done great work for me before too. I was trying to get him about 100 kitchens before I left my last company but they'd rather leave their 1990s salmon pink cabinets...
We got our cabinets from Tim about 6 years back and couldn't be happier. The advantages of custom in our tiny kitchen made the expense well worth it. Buy once, cry once.